The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Never repeat old grievances.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.